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Amazon’s 'Just Walk Out' grocery stores are dead (gizmodo.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive

even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the only "self-check-out" system I have ever liked is:

I have the store app on my phone.
I scan the items with my phone app as I grab them off the shelves.
I then tell the app, "ok, i'm ready to pay for these"
it runs the charge digitally.

no waiting in a queue,
no 'place the item back in the bagging area',
no stuffing bills into slots,
no 'follow the instructions on the pin pad'.
I'm already done!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Self-checkouts in the UK have a vital use case much in demand from the populace: they save the British from ever having to talk to another person. Probably for the best for everyone really.